Migrant Representations pairs twenty-four carefully selected histories in order to compare how migrants themselves ? Irish labourer, Lithuanian refugee or Indian doctor ? and their social investigators capture in words and images defining private and historical moments. These comparative case studies from the 1780s to the 2000s explore how migrants constructed their own narratives of mobility and settlement through procedures of reflecting, remembering and recording. Moreover, these studies examine how speech, writing, and picture were used, for instance, by a missionary, social scientist or activist to make ?outside? representations of the migrant. Such life-stories, social surveys, and pictures emerge as alternative archives. Leese?s transnational, cultural history considers life-story forms and their uses; the tension between external surveillance and self-observation; the power of...
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